Jan 13, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A group of archaeologists from the University of Cambridge’s Archaeological Unit (CAU) has unearthed well-preserved Bronze Age dwellings during an excavation...

Jun 5, 2015 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists led by Dr Christopher Standish from the University of Bristol and the University of Southampton suggests people were trading...

Jun 4, 2015 by News Staff

A group of paleontologists, led by Catherine Klein from the University of Bristol, UK, has put together the remains of a new small species of prehistoric...

Mar 19, 2015 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal Nature, scientists used DNA samples collected from 2,039 people to create the fine-scale genetic map of British...

Feb 27, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of scientists led by Dr Robin Allaby from the University of Warwick, wheat reached Britain approximately 8,000 years ago – two...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester, UK, and Prof Judy Massare of Brockport College in New York have discovered a new species of...

Jan 29, 2015 by News Staff

The majority of spiders spin silk threads several micrometers thick, but the orb spider Uloborus plumipes can spin nano-scale filaments. The feather-legged...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Prof Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta, Canada, has found the fossilized remains of four ancient legged snakes...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications provides overwhelming evidence that the human skeleton found under a car park in Leicester,...

Oct 15, 2014 by News Staff

The bronze remains of a Celtic chariot dating to the 2nd or 3rd century BC have been unearthed at the Burrough Hill Iron Age hillfort, near Melton Mowbray...

Oct 3, 2014 by News Staff

A new study, led by Dr David Jacoby of the Institute of Zoology in London, UK, has shown for the first time that the fearsome predators of the deep blue...

Sep 20, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologist Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester’s School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and his colleagues from the United...

Sep 10, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Birmingham University-led Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project have discovered 17 previously unknown archaeological monuments around...

Jul 11, 2014 by News Staff

Mycologists at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have identified three new species of mushrooms contained within a commercial packet of dried Chinese porcini...

Jul 8, 2014 by News Staff

“Jurassic Britain was a ‘dinosaur paradise’ with more than 100 different species described in the scientific literature to date,” sys to Dean Lomax,...

May 20, 2014 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology digging at the site of the U.S. Embassy in Vauxhall, South London, has discovered flint...